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Mathematics, Biology, and Awesome Wonder

June 5, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
Paleontologists Predict What Future Animals Might Look Like

June 4, 2020 Jeanne Timmons Gizmodo
Book
Book Review: The Genealogical Adam and Eve by S. Joshua Swamidass

June 4, 2020 Lucas Giolas Apologetics 315

The Genealogical Adam and Eve: The Surprising Science of Universal Ancestry (InterVarsity Press, Dec 2019) | See Also Amazon
Blog Post
Is the Human Body a Bad Design?

June 4, 2020 Ken Ham Answers in Genesis
Nature’s cosmic hard drive? Black holes could store information like holograms

June 4, 2020 Jennifer Ouellette ars technica

Theoretical black holes are ideal toy models for thought experiments in quantum gravity.
Triple Fail: Big Science Blunders

June 4, 2020 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

Three strikes in one day: scientific theories and assumptions in unrelated fields have blundered big time. What are the lessons?
Neuroscientist: Neuroscience “Is a Failure”

June 4, 2020 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today
Why Not To Trust “Science” Just Now: COVID-19 Edition

June 4, 2020 Uncommon Descent
512 Million-Year-Old Parasite Found Still Stuck to Its Host

June 4, 2020 Uncommon Descent
Why the universe I invented is right -- but still not the final answer

June 3, 2020 Jim Peebles New Scientist

Nobel prizewinner introduced dark matter and dark energy into our standard model of the cosmos -- but that is only an approximation to a deeper truth, he says.
News Update/Commentary
New test of dark energy and expansion from cosmic structures

June 3, 2020 University of Portsmouth Science Daily

A new paper has shown how large structures in the distribution of galaxies in the Universe provide the most precise tests of dark energy and cosmic expansion yet.
Physicist: Gravity Refutes Free Will

June 3, 2020 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today
Confessions of a Liberal Darwinian Skeptic

June 3, 2020 Robert F. Shedinger Evolution News & Science Today
How a Liberal Seminary Prof Started to See the Point of ID

June 3, 2020 Uncommon Descent
Studies of Brain Activity Aren't As Useful As Scientists Thought

June 3, 2020 Karl Leif Bates Duke University

Duke researcher questions 15 years of his own work with a reexamination of functional MRI data
First life on Earth may actually have been built from both RNA and DNA

June 3, 2020 Michael Marshall New Scientist
Consciousness: how can I experience things that aren’t ‘real’?

June 3, 2020 Philip Goff The Conversation
Synthetic red blood cells mimic natural ones, and have new abilities

June 3, 2020 American Chemical Society phys.org
Aiming Blindly: Darwinism Is Inherently Contradictory

June 3, 2020 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

Once in awhile, evolutionists see fundamental problems in Darwinism. But they continue believing it anyway.
News Update/Commentary
Human activity threatens vertebrate evolutionary history

June 3, 2020 American Friends of Tel Aviv University Science Daily

Research highlights which endangered species should be prioritized for conservation
A Nobelist Explains: I Invented the Correct Universe

June 3, 2020 Uncommon Descent
My Right Hemisphere Is an Atheist! No, Wait ...

June 2, 2020 Michael Egnor Mind Matters

In reality, split-brain surgery does not split consciousness in any meaningful sense
Dead Sea Scrolls “Puzzle" Pieced Together with DNA Extracted from Animal Skins on Which Scrolls Were Written

June 2, 2020 American Friends of Tel Aviv University

Ancient DNA extracted from Dead Sea Scrolls by TAU researchers permits rare, unanticipated glimpse into world of Second Temple Judaism
Blog Post
Journalism Without Skepticism

June 2, 2020 Steven Novella neurologica blog
Incredible fossil find is the oldest known parasite

June 2, 2020 Scott K. Johnson ars technica

510 million-year-old rocks in China preserve brachiopods and their parasites.
Evolution: why it seems to have a direction and what to expect next

June 2, 2020 Matthew Wills The Conversation
A mysterious company’s coronavirus papers in top medical journals may be unraveling

June 2, 2020 Kelly Servick and Martin Enserink Science
The entire universe may once have been spinning all over the place

June 2, 2020 Leah Crane New Scientist
Oldest known parasite is a worm-like animal from 512 million years ago

June 2, 2020 Michael Marshall New Scientist
More of the moth myth!

June 2, 2020 Matthew Cserhati Creation Ministries International

Genetic evidence show that peppered moths support creation
Darwin’s Desperation?

June 2, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
Asked at Areo Magazine: Did the Catholic Church Give Birth to Science?

June 2, 2020 Uncommon Descent
Ancient DNA offers clues to physical origins of Dead Sea Scrolls

June 2, 2020 Andrew Lawler National Geographic

Genetic analysis is revealing remarkable insights -- about where they came from, how they fit together, and more.
A Biblical Mystery at Oxford

June, 2020 Ariel Sabar The Atlantic

A renowned scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment. Now he’s facing allegations of antiquities theft, cover-up, and fraud.
COVID-19: Atheism Went Viral As Well

June 1, 2020 Michael Egnor Mind Matters

Atheists are uniquely unsuited to accuse others of devaluing human life
Half the matter in the universe was missing

June 1, 2020 J. Xavier Prochaska and Jean-Pierre Macquart Live Science

Scientists just found it hiding in the cosmos.
Here's how plants became meat eaters

June 1, 2020 Diane Lincoln Live Science

Carnivorous plants are the ‘most skillful green hunters on the planet.'
Left-Handed DNA Has a Biological Role Within a Dynamic Genetic Code

June 1, 2020 Rachel Brazil The Scientist

Once considered an unimportant curiosity, Z-DNA is now recognized to provide an on-the-fly mechanism to regulate how an RNA transcript is edited.
Much Nothing about Ado: The Uselessness of Dehumanized Darwinism

June 1, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
Human Zoos -- How “Science” Fueled the Racial Fire

June 1, 2020 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today
Protein Synthesis Enzymes Have Evolved Additional Jobs

June 1, 2020 Amber Dance The Scientist

Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, which help translate the genetic code into protein, also function in angiogenesis, fat metabolism, and more.
What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about the Brain

June, 2020 Christof Koch Scientific American

A close brush can leave a lasting mental legacy -- and may tell us about how the mind functions under extreme conditions
No Free Will Means No Justice

May 31, 2020 Michael Egnor Mind Matters

Materialist biologist Jerry Coyne doesn’t seem to understand what denying free will would mean for the criminal justice system
Is Intelligence Common or Rare in the Universe?

May 31, 2020 Mind Matters

A recent analysis says that life is common but intelligence not so much. Let’s explore the reasoning
U.S. College Students Perceive “Evolution” As Atheistic

May 31, 2020 Uncommon Descent
Genetic Entropy: Sal Cordova vs Ron Garret

May 31, 2020 Uncommon Descent
Video
Genetic Entropy Debate: Salvador Cordova vs. Ron Garret

May 31, 2020 Standing For Truth YouTube
Commemoration: Origin of Life Researcher David Deamer’s 80th Birthday

May 31, 2020 Uncommon Descent

Special Issue of Journal Life
Why “Humanize”? A New Effort to Defend the Unique Dignity of Human Beings

May 30, 2020 Wesley J. Smith Evolution News & Science Today
Were ancestral proteins less specific?

May 30, 2020 Lucas C. Wheeler and Michael J. Harms bioRxiv